Birkmeier, Bettina and Korn, Bernd and Flemisch, Frank Ole (2011) First findings on the controller's mental model in sectorless air traffic management. In: Proceedings of the 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference. 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 16.-20. Okt. 2011, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Abstract
In sectorless air traffic management the airspace is considered as one piece instead of partitioning it into sectors. The air traffic controllers are no longer in charge of sectors but are given responsibility for a certain number of aircraft during their entire flight. This entails that the controller has to keep track of several different traffic situations geographically spread out over a potentially large area. Of course, such a considerable change of concept has implications on the controllers' mental model and the way conflicts are solved. This paper describes the shift of the controller's mental model away from one geographically limited view with long-term planning to several global views with short-term planning. It is illustrated how this altered mental model also implies changes of the controller's tasks and conflict solving. Real-time simulations within DLR's LRM2020 project have shown that working with a sectorless concept is possible and feasible if the controller is supported by suitable conflict detection. The details and results of these simulations are given and the effects of the altered mental model are analyzed. It is furthermore explained how a sectorless concept could change controller work away from controller teams consisting of executive and planner to a one-person workplace supported by a conflict detection. At the same time the principle that two pairs of eyes are better than one is retained. The controller’s tasks are not reduced to monitoring jobs but the essential conflict avoidance task remains.
Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/71614/ | ||||||||||||
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Document Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech, Paper) | ||||||||||||
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Title: | First findings on the controller's mental model in sectorless air traffic management | ||||||||||||
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Date: | October 2011 | ||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference | ||||||||||||
Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||
Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||
Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||
In SCOPUS: | No | ||||||||||||
In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | ||||||||||||
Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
Keywords: | Air traffic management; ATM; sectorless ATM; airspace management; sectorless airspace management; advanced airspace concept; mental model; traffic picture | ||||||||||||
Event Title: | 30th Digital Avionics Systems Conference | ||||||||||||
Event Location: | Seattle, WA, USA | ||||||||||||
Event Type: | international Conference | ||||||||||||
Event Dates: | 16.-20. Okt. 2011 | ||||||||||||
HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | ||||||||||||
HGF - Program: | Aeronautics | ||||||||||||
HGF - Program Themes: | ATM and Operation (old) | ||||||||||||
DLR - Research area: | Aeronautics | ||||||||||||
DLR - Program: | L AO - Air Traffic Management and Operation | ||||||||||||
DLR - Research theme (Project): | L - Effiziente Flugführung und Flugbetrieb (old) | ||||||||||||
Location: | Braunschweig | ||||||||||||
Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Flight Control Institute of Flight Control > Pilot Assistance | ||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Birkmeier, Bettina | ||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 12 Dec 2011 16:58 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2017 19:18 |
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